Happy St. Marijuana Day!
This week I ran away from the Kyiv smog to Odesa. The city truly has a chill mood, nice weather, amazing food. Working on a roof terrace…
I hope it will find you well and you’ll have 30 minutes to read through and try some new cool services I brought :)
Let’s go!
As I promised, no coronavirus related articles, if they are not showing how to act smarter. There are four of them.
Stackline’s research on the top 100 gaining & declining categories in e-commerce. Btw, have you already bought a bread baking machine?
An incredibly useful list of all active European investors during the pandemic with their requirements, the main focus, and dates of the last investments. Don’t show anyone!
Clear and a little obvious, this presentation about how COVID affects everyday life, industries, air pollution, and even crimes, arrests, and domestic violence.
Many and many companies are firing employees. Check this letter from Karma’s CEO about laying off 16% of their company. I really liked his idea about building an Alumni community.
The best articles I found this week:
Thousands of years scientists trying to find the single fundamental theory of physics. Stephan Wolfram says we are almost there, and quarantine is just the right time to make it together.
Have you ever felt a visual orgasm from looking at AI’s architecture? This is your chance! P.S. No, this is not related to LSD’s birthday yesterday on April 19th.
The best services I found this week:
From today's list of tools, I want to start with this meta-tool, called 'Team tools'. It gives you access to tools that are used by real teams like Buffer, Framer and, soon, 'Make it in Ukraine’.
I even really like useless applications of AI. US engineers made a tool for creating 3D-videos from any photo. You can see code and more examples here.
I do my breath practice almost every day. It helps you to focus, deal with anxiety and improves your sleep and wellness. Breath Machine will help you to make your practice easy. This link has a pre-made set up for 7s for inhaling and 7s for exhaling, without holds.
One of the most interesting fields where marketing meets AI is content optimization. MarketMuse makes reports on your planned and existing content pieces with actionable ways to improve it. Check by yourself.
Another great AI application is Krisp, the service which makes your calls noise and echo free. Try it and never suffer from all these unwanted sounds around.
All great things start with inspiration and great references. Marketing Inspo makes your life easier, collecting all the best marketing resources in one place.
If you are struggling to connect all of the communication channels with your customers in one place, you definitely need to try MessageBird to optimize your communications for reliability, quality, and cost, through a single API.
This is not a time of need not, but of must, when it comes to caring about your personal data and online safety in general. Mappd helps you to find all the companies you are sharing data with, and potential breaches you were involved in.
How to make money online? This is one of the most searchable questions in Google. ModernDayJobs answers with more than 100 vetted websites where you can find a remote job, freelance or just make some money on surveys and completing simple tasks.
I’m still exploring services for routine automation, and today I want to show you Axiom – a tool backed by TechStars and SAP that allows you to create browser bots for automating almost everything. I want to try it for LinkedIn connections cleaning up, which was impossible with other services. Find your task you don’t want to even think of.
The last one is an iPhone app that helps you to avoid ‘text neck syndrome’ using your device’s motion, location, and notifications to constantly check your posture and notify you to fix it. Try it and be healthy :)
The only video I want to show you is a duet of legendary Jeff Beck and Johnny Depp, re-imaging John Lennon’s song Isolation:
..And also super cool live set by EXZ made in Brazil. This is amazing! :)
That’s all for today! See you later this week!
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